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PC Pine

Attaching Documents

1. Double click the PC Pine icon.
2. Log in to your e-mail.
3. Start composing a message.
4. Put your cursor in the Attachment field and press CTRL + J or, using the mouse, click Attach
5. This will appear at the bottom of your screen:
   
6. Press CTRL + T or click To Files to go to your files and this will appear:
   
   Note that at the bottom of the screen, in the Files of Type: field, Text Files (*.txt) is listed. To view all files, click the and change it to All Files (*.*).
7. Locate your file and once you've found it, double click the file name or click the filename once and then click Open.
8. You will be prompted to add an attachment comment. You can include a comment if you wish. If not, press Enter to continue.
   
9. Once you've attached the file, the top portion of your e-mail message should contain your filename.
   
10. Finish composing your message and press CTRL + X when you are ready to send it!

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Downloading Attachments

1. Double click the PC Pine icon
2. Login to your e-mail account
3. Once in PC Pine, go to the e-mail message that has the file attached to it. It should look like this:
   
4. Press V to view the attachment and this will appear:
   
5. Using the arrow keys, select/highlight the file that was sent to you.
6. Next, you will need to save the file. Press S to save and the following will appear:
   
   Note: PC Pine will automatically save the file to the faculty server unless you specify otherwise!
7. To save the file to your hard drive or to a floppy drive, press CTRL + T and this will appear:
   
8. From this point, you can specify to save to either the hard drive or floppy drive and click Save when you're ready to save it.
9. Once you've specified where you want to save your file to, this will appear at the bottom of your screen:
   
   Press Enter to save it to your chosen directory.
10. You will notice, at the bottom of the screen, that PC Pine will tell you where you'd saved it to and that it was successful in saving it.
    

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Creating Entries in Your Address Book

1. Start up PC Pine by double clicking the PC Pine icon.
2. At the Main Menu, select A for Address Book.
   
   This will appear at the bottom of your screen:
   
3. To add new entries to your address book press SHIFT + 2 (for the @ symbol) and this will appear:
   
   The Nickname is a one word association for the e-mail address you are adding (e.g. Dad or Mom). If you enter a nickname for your address book entry, this allows you to type in the nickname you've assigned an address in your address book.
   Type in the full name of the person if you would like.
   In the address, field, type in their complete e-mail address.
   At the bottom of your screen are all the available commands for editing your address book entries
   
4. When finished entering all the necessary information, press CTRL + Enter and this will appear:
   
   Press Y for yes.

You're done adding an entry to your address book!!

Take note of the nicknames you assign your address book entries so that you can use them in the future. However, if you do forget the nickname as you are composing you can press CTRL + T to go to your address book to select an address.

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Creating a Signature

1. Start your PC Pine program by clicking the PC Pine icon and login
2. At the main menu, highlight Setup or press S
   
3. Once you do this, you will see this at the bottom of your screen:
   
   Press S to edit your Signature.
4. Type in your signature as you want it to appear in your e-mail messages.
   
5. When you're finished, press CTRL+X and this will appear at the bottom of your screen:
   
   Press Y and you will be returned to the Main Menu.

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Using the Vacation Feature

To set a vacation message you must open the Unix version of Pine. Click here for a tutorial.

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Unix Pine

General Use

• Read e-mail in Pine
  At the UNIX prompt type pine. Your mail will be displayed on the screen. The current message is highlighted. Press the RETURN key to read the current message. If a message is longer than one screen press the spacebar to see the next screen.
• Display mail message index
  Type i to return to the message index. Press the spacebar to see the next index page, - to see the previous page.
• Delete e-mail
  Type d to mark the current message for deletion. Type u to undelete the current message.
• Compose and send e-mail
  Type c to enter the Pine message composer. You will be prompted for the e-mail address of the recipient(s), a one-line subject, and a list of addresses that should receive carbon copies. After answering these questions you may compose your message. Type Ctrl-x to send the message; press y when asked if the message should be sent.
• Print e-mail
  Press % to send the current message to the default printer.
• Reply to e-mail
  Type r to reply to the current message. If the original message was sent to more than one person you will be asked if the reply should be sent to everyone. You will also be asked if a copy of the original message should be included in your reply.
• Quit and save e-mail
  Type q to quit Pine. Answer y to the questions. All messages marked for deletion will be removed. All the mail you have read and not deleted will be saved in your received folder. All unread mail will remain in your system mailbox.
• Read saved e-mail
  To read mail you have saved in your received folder, type l to go to the folder list and select the folder named received.
• Help with e-mail
  Type Ctrl-g or ? (varies by screen) in Pine to read the online help. At the UNIX prompt type man pine to read the Pine manual page.

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Attaching Documents

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Downloading Attachments

1. Open the e-mail message with the attachment.
2. You should see this in the body of the message:
   
3. To save your attachment to a file, press v and this will appear:
   
4. Using the down arrow, select the file so that it is highlighted as in the diagram, in this case, Item 2.
5. Press s to save the file to your home directory and you will be prompted:
   
   Note that the filename is automatically inserted for you!
6. Press Enter to save the file to your home directory. Take note of the filename.
7. Go to the Law School folder and find the WS-FTP icon and double click.
8. This dialog box will appear:
   
9. Type in your user ID (login name) and Password in the appropriate fields and click OK.
10. If the connection is successful, the next step is to transfer the file (or files) from your home directory to your hard drive or floppy drive.
    The left-hand side of the screen relates to directories and files on your office PC's hard drive. The right-hand side relates to directories and files in your home directory on the Faculty Server. To manuever around in your directories, click the two dots/green up arrow to find the directory where your file resides. For example, if the file in question resides in the C:\WP51\TEXT directory, you would click on the two dots twice, then click WP51 and finally TEXT in the upper left-hand box.
11. Once you have located the appropriate directory, you should be able to find your file by using the vertical scroll bars. Highlight it by clicking the file name once. To transfer the file to your office PC's hard drive, click the arrow button located in the middle of the screen in the direction you want the file to "go". The arrow button looks like this:

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Using the Vacation Feature

The "vacation" program is used to automatically respond to people who send you email when you are away. It provides a courteous way of letting others know that you did receive their message and will respond at a later date.

1. Click on the Pine Mail icon (also called Telnet or NetTerm on some machines) in Windows.
2. Login and remain at the prompt. DO NOT start Pine. If you are already in Pine, quit so that you are at a prompt that looks similar to this:
   
3. Type pico .vacation.msg See the example below.
   
   NOTE: There is a space between pico and .vacation.msg. Be sure you insert that space!
4. You should now be in a text editor that looks very similar to the one you use when you are composing messages in Pine. A sample vacation message should be on the screen. See below.
   
5. Edit the text of your outgoing, automated response using the arrow keys to move around just like you would in an email message. If you include the "$SUBJECT" (with quotes) variable, it will automatically insert the subject from the message someone sends you.
6. When you are satisfied with your outgoing vacation message, you may save it and exit by pressing Ctrl x.
   
7. When you are asked to "Save modified buffer?" you should press y and press Enter on the keyboard. To activate the vacation program, continue below.

Activating Your Vacation Message

1. At the prompt, type vacation and hit Enter.
   
2. After you type vacation, it will ask you the following questions:
   
   • Would you like to see your message? - Type n and Enter for no if you do not want to preview your outgoing message, or type y if you want to preview it.
   • Would you like to edit your message? - Type n for no. DO NOT type y.
3. If vacation is NOT currently enabled, you will be asked the following question:
   
   • Would you like to enable the vacation feature?
   Your screen should look like this when you're done:
   
4. Type y and Enter to enable the vacation program. You will then receive the following confirmation: Vacation feature ENABLED. Please remember to turn it off when you get back from vacation. Bon voyage. Your vacation message is now ready for use.

To Deactivate Your Vacation Message

1. At the prompt, type vacation and press Enter.
   
2. After you type vacation, it will ask you the following questions:
   • Would you like to see your message? - Type n and Enter for no if you do not want to preview your outgoing message, or type y if you want to preview it.
   • Would you like to edit your message? - Type n for no. DO NOT type y.
3. If vacation is already enabled and you are now attempting to turn it off, the prompt will read as follows:
   • You have a .forward file in your home directory containing: \jchang, "|/usr/ucb/vacation jchang" Would you like to remove it and disable the vacation feature?
   Type y and Enter to disable the vacation message. You will then see the confirming message: "Back to normal reception of mail."
4. Your screen should look like this:
   

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